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Didn't McDonald's solve this problem decades ago?

• silverquiet 3y ago
  Yeah, apparently Flippy is now only for working a frier. The article says it can use intelligence to properly cook different things like wings or onions. The fast food way of doing this would just be to put a timer over the frier with a preset and a picture of a wing/fry/whatever on it that you press when you drop the basket in. I'm sure it could save some labor, but you know the thing probably costs a hundred thousand dollars and also comes with a SaaS contract that's twice what a worker would cost already. And you still need a worker to get stuff out of the freezer and load up whatever hopper the machine is working out of.
• rhplus 3y ago
  Fun fact: McDonalds cooks don’t even flip burgers. The process involves a grill press which cooks both sides at once. It’s less work in half the time! Almost all cooking steps in a McDonalds kitchen involves a timer and some form of automation. The humans run the overall process and final assembly, but automation - microwaves, warming ovens, toaster belts, auto-rise fry baskets, grill timers - runs all the repetitive and standardized cooking sub-processes.